It could have been titled
Nowhere, One-Horse Town or Timbuktu, all of which more or less refer to a
backwater burp of no particular significance.
On a cross-country car trip it would be an exit sign that breezes by …
another mile maker down, another one to go.
So when you hear that
Ariztical Entertainment has tabbed June 24 as the DVD debut date for director
Aaron Douglas Johnston’s Bumblef**k, USA, you probably have
an image in your mind that we are on our way to some small town where nothing
much happens.
You’d be half-right. Muscatine, Iowa (about 20 miles down the
Mississippi River from Davenport) is a small town to be sure, but there is
plenty happening there.
One suspects that
filmmaker Aaron Douglas Johnston (this was his debut film in 2011) wrote and
directed this well-crafted slice-of-life story based on personal
experience. There’s not a false note
here and it is well-worth a look (like a roadside attraction … stop, enjoy, you
might learn something).
Alexa (Cat Smits) is from
Amsterdam, who has come with nothing more than the clothes on her back and a
camcorder to this no-where town to find out why her friend Matt killed
himself. He was gay … he tried to fit
in, but in the end the pressure was just too much.
She is an outsider, but she
gets people to talk, especially other gays living in a place that is not all
that friendly to those who are different … or, perhaps, not so different as she
discovers in townie Jennifer (Heidi M. Sallows).
Bonus nuggets here
include a very insightful extended video interview session with cast members
Cat Smits and Heidi M. Sallows.
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